The Warriors

TITLE: The Warriors
AUTHOR: Willie J
EMAIL: wmj166@msn.com
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RATING: R with occassional NC-17 moments
DISCLAIMER: I don't own any part of BTVS, AtS...I wish I did
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SPOILERS: SPOILERS! SPOILIERS! Season 7 of Buffy, Season 4 of Angel
SUMMARY:
BETA'D BY: Echo and James

Chapter 4

When Xander hung up the phone, he flushed as he turned and met Angel's frozen expression while the others passed between them carrying furniture that the Family had donated to them. He bit his lip in dismay, realizing that he apparently still had issues with the whole male-to-male thing he had going with Angel.

He knew that he had hurt Angel when he had stumbled on how to introduce the vampire to his Brothers and Sisters. Oh sure, wife tripped off his tongue proudly and easily enough when he introduced Willow to them but Angel...he sadly eyed the stiff back turned to him...he had hesitated too damn long after saying Angel's name.

Slowly he trudged over to where Angel was arranging the couch to Willow's exact satisfaction, he knew the other was aware of his approach by Angel's back becoming even stiffer.

"Angel," he asked quietly, "Can we talk..just for a few minutes," he begged softly, not daring to touch Angel for fear of getting his arm ripped off and beaten with it.

"What about," Angel asked coolly, not budging an inch. "Besides, I think you've already said whatever you needed to say earlier."

Willow eyed her two men and wanted to smack both of them so freakin' HARD! Both were so stupidly stubborn that it was a miracle that nobody had killed either one of them yet. She grinned briefly, oh yeah that's right, they've both been killed a couple of times as a matter of fact. She could already see Xander starting to get steamed at Angel for being mad at him and she shook her head in weary amusement.

This obviously called for a woman's delicate touch.

"Boys," she said calmly, "Either you two settle this the easy way or the hard way. But which ever way you wanna do it, just remember that you will not be touching me until this matter is settled between the two of you." And she stared calmly at both of their horrified faces.

"Uhm, by not 'touching you' do you mean not touching in the 'Oooh more! More! or not touching in the 'Hey Xander my friend and Hi, Angel my buddy' because I can maybe handle the not touching in the friendly kinda way, because the other not touching would be...," Xander voiced oud out under her stern expression.

"I mean, no more nookie," Willow said firmly, crossing her arms determinedly.

"Uh oh, Xander," Angel said, watchWillWillow uneasily, "She's got her Resolve face on."

"Yeah, I noticed," Xander said warily, eyeing Willow with trepidation.

Willow narrowed her eyes at them and muttered, watching in wicked satisfaction as both men disappeared. Casting a couple of other spells, she rearranged the suite, adding a working bathroom and soundproofing the bedroom. Her hopes were high that the latter would definitely be needed.

"Whoa," Xander exclaimed falling back on the bed, watching as Angel stumbled against the wall.

"Yeah, you could say that again," Angel mumbled righting himself. He looked at Xander sprawled on the bed and immediately tried for the door, not wanting to be cooped up with someone that was so obviously ashamed of him. He wasn't very surprised to find the door barred and sealed, frustrated he slammed his fist into the door.

Xander jumped when Angel punched the door, and, eyeing his mate, he carefully climbed off the bed.

"Angel, I'm sorry! What more do you want me to say or to do to prove how sorry I am," Xander cried in exasperation, throwing his hands up in the air.

Angel whirled around and growled, "I would sooner NOT be married to you rather than spend my time with someone that is so obviously unwilling to seen with me in public. I refuse to be your shameful little secret behind closed doors. What?! Don't you think your family knows what we are doing up here?! They are not blind or idiots and I'm sure that they know exactly what goes on in our bedroom," he snorted in angry amusement before storming over to the window and looking out.

Xander regarded the angry back and sighing, he slowly approached Angel. Gently he caressed a stiff shoulder, undeterred as Angel swiftly shook his hand off. Sliding between Angel and the window, he pressed soft kisses on the clenched jaw.

"I sorry...I choked," he whispered between kisses. "For thousands of years, I've only been with women. Men never held any interest for me, other than as friends. My family used to laugh at me about my silly attitude, always saying that I was missing out on so much pleasure, but I didn't care. Men just didn't interest me...at least not until you came into my life."

Slowly he pressed his lips to Angel, licking languidly at the hard sealed lips until finally Angel ctanctantly allowed him entrance and he groaned softly as Angel's tongue caressed his.

Breaking apart breathlessly, he continued, "You have no idea the shock it was to me to feel desire for you, to want you as much as I've want Willow. A male and a demon. To want to feel your hands touching me...holding me...caressing me," he added in a hoarse fervent whisper, feeling Angel shiver in response. He gasped softly as Angel began touching him...fingers gently gliding over his skin. His neck arched in mute surrender, a low whimper coming from his lips as cool lips pressed against his neck.

Lifting his head, he held Angel's eyes as he slowly began to unbutton his husband's shirt, pressing kisses to each inch of pale flesh revealed, as he was turned and walked backwards to the waiting bed.

"No other man attracteduntiuntil you came along. Even before our bond I was aware of you and denied even to myself how much I wanted you. Just don't ever let me go, I'm trying so hard Angel. Please don't stop loving me," he begged, feeling his heart aching at how badly he had messed things up.

Angel stopped them at the edge of the bed and looked down in glistening, wet eyes, "Don't worry, I won't stop loving you," he whispered kissing Xander's soft lips, "But Xander, I'm serious. I won't be your little dark shameful secret...either I'm your husband in the light of day with everyone's eyes on us or I won't be in the dark of night when no one is around to see us."

Xander nodded shakily, "I won't do that," he promised pulling Angel's head down into a long thorough kiss and felt himself slowly lowered to the bed. A low moan of desire came from his throat at the welcome weight of Angel between his legs.

Amid hungry kisses, soft spoken promises of untold pleasure, Angel maneuvered them on the bed driving Xander insane as he ground their hardening bulges together. He loved pulling the cries of delight from the luscious body beneath him. He chuckled hoarsely as he parted Xander's shirt and began suckling the tender, pouting nipples on the smooth chest.

"Tasty," he growled around the hardening nub before attacking it's twin and bringing it to the same rigid attention.

Mewling softly under the onslaught of Angel's ravenous mouth, Xander arched greedily under his lover, a harsh cry ripped from his throat at the tiny little nip Angel gave to the upthrust nipple in response.

With shaky hands, he attacked Angel's shirt, ripping it off of the broad shoulders in his haste to caress his mate's cool flesh, willfully ignoring the amused chuckle from Angel.

Quickly, he wiggled enticingly under Angel, removing their clothes hurriedly until they were both gloriously naked. Hard aching flesh stroking...touching...caressing each other, low cries of need, of desire coming from them as they arched mindlessly against one another.

Xander twisted and flipped them, smiling slowly down into Angel's startled face. A look of dark seductive pleasure on his face as he writhed atop of Angel, a look of smoldering sensuality on his face at the low hoarse groan of need from his husband.

This war with himself, of battling his own insecurities and doubts, would be as hard fought as any war he had ever faced. There was no way he woingoing to lose this beautiful man. Just because he was promised mates didn't mean that he was guaranteed to keep them, Father knew his children far to well to allow that to happen. A prize easily gained would soon lose interest in the eyes of the possessor. If they wanted mates, they would have to work to keep their mates interested in them and loving them as well.

"Angel," he breathed, leaning down for a long thorough kiss and felt soft flesh stirring... stretching...hardening beneath him. He opened his mouth wider, pouring his feelings, his need into that erotically charged kiss. Moaning at the spiraling pleasure as Angel's hands moved...caressing his chest, his nipples. Cupping his ass, a finger lazily stroking across his fluttering pucker and he hissed softly at the spark of heat that raced through him.

He leaned over and slowly licked a hard nipple. The reaction was swift---feeling Angel jam himself harder beneath him, hands clenched harder at his ass and pleasure unfurled, flowed like water through him. He reached behind him, stroking Angel purposely...he loved the way Angel hardened in his palm and how his lover convulsed in ecstasy at his touch.

He wiggled his way down Angel's body, his aching cock leaving a glistening trail as he settled himself between Angel's legs.

Angel's gasped softly, his eyes focusing on the dark eyes looking up at him uncertainly as soft fingers caressed his leaking cock.

"You don't have to do this," he managed to say, despite his desire to feel Xander's mouth closing around his shaft. He moaned softly at the soft kiss that was placed on the wet tip.

"I know," Xander whispered, his eyes widening as the taste of Angel exploded on his tongue, "But I want to."

And then he was too busy licking and sucking on Angel's cock, making further words unnecessary.

"Mmmmm," he hummed in delight, caressing Angel at the very tip of the weeping head with his wet tongue. "You belong to only me and Willow," he whispered folding the tip between his lips and sucking gently.

Tight as a drum and ready to explode, Angel nearly leaped off the bed at that first caressing touch "Y "Yours and Willow's," he agreed hoarsely, watching as Xander compressed his lips again around his cock....he shuddered, it was too fuckin' much. He just wanted to be buried in Xander's tight body, watching....feeling that writhing body over him, under him....it didn't matter, just as long as he was IN him. He moaned as Xander swirled his tongue around the head of his cock, sucking on it like it was the last popsicle in the world. He stiffened, panting hoarsely as Xander took him deeper into his mouth. Feeling the pull of that hot luscious mouth....and he knew by the look in Xander's eyes that the boy knew exactly what this was doing to him.

He tried to hold on, to rein in his pleasure and he nearly lost it when Xander looked up at him with a look of ravenous hunger on his face, pink wet lips distended around his cock. And then his Xander...his lover slowly drew back with soft kittenish licks up his cock, coming up for air. He watched with glazed eyes, his hips flexing involuntarily as the dark tousled head lowered again and a soft tongue began just licking at the thick vein on the underside of his cock, before taking that, just the tip, into his hot avid mouth and making the most pleasurable, greediest sounds imaginable.

That look of sensual debauchery...of blissful delight etched on Xander's face, mouth stretched wide around his cock, would stay in his mind for days.

"God, Xander you look so beautiful," Angel couldn't help but whisper, watching as his thick, pale shaft disappeared slowly into the rounded pink circle of his lover's mouth. The hard flush of arousal...of need on Xander's face was making him lose what little control he still had. And he was powerless stop his hips from arching desperately upwards as he writhed in Xander's sultry grip. The hungry moans, that salacious look on Xander's face had him moving increasingly faster into that insatiable mouth bobbing over his cock.

He could feel Xander's lips...that ravenous tongue wrapping around him, sucking him...those hot hands that played up and down his hard shaft, pulling every ounce of pleasure from him until he could barely hold back any longer...and God where did he learn how to.....

And it was too much.

"So good," he moaned pumping his hips, driving his cock deeper into Xander's mouth. It was so good...so fuckin' good! He groaned at the low, humming sounds of greedy abandon coming from Xander's mouth, as if his mate couldn't get enough of him.

"C'mon baby, that's it...take all of it...you can do it," he mindlessly chanted, wanting to feel his cock deep into Xander's throat...to feel the muscles caressing him with each swallow.

Just one more lick...just one more soft sound of pleasure....just one more smooth glide of Xander's mouth over his aching, wet cock...just one more...just one...just...and he stiffened with a hoarse shout of pleasure, not even thinking to warn Xander in time as he came. His face rippled, eyes shifting to gold at the force of his release.

Xander could feel Angel stiffening and settled himself tighter around the writhing body, swallowing hastily as the thick shaft erupted in his mouth. Sweet salty goodness flowed over his tongue and he eagerly, hungrily feasted on the succulent flesh and the delicious fluid within.

Angel slowly came down from his climax, shaking and aware of Xander nuzzling between his legs. Licking, mouthing at his balls as if to encourage more of Angel's cum to flow out.

"Baby, you're not gonet aet any more for at least 10 minutes," he said lazily, reaching down and pulling Xander up to his lips. Greedily he devoured the sultry lips, tasting himself within that luscious mouth before pulling back and nipping lightly at the full bottom lip.

Looking at the wet lips, that look of satiated pleasure on Xander's face, he felt himself stirring again, hardening under the hot flexing ass perched on his hips...and he could see from the widening of Xander's eyes that he felt the hungry stirring beneath him.

Xander moaned under the passionate kiss, "You know, if I had known how good it tasted, I probably would have done this years ago," he said jokingly and squeaked in alarm when he was suddenly flipped over and Angel's hot golden eyes glared down at him.

"The only cock that you will ever have down your throat will be MINE! The only cock that you will have in your ass will be MINE, is that clear," Angel hissed down into Xander's face.

"Yes sir," Xander said shakily, his eyese ine in lustful desire at this forceful side of Angel.

"Good boy," Angel purred, easily recognize that look in Xander's eyes, "I'm glad that we understand each other." Slowly he settled his weight over the supple body beneath him and deliberately rocked against Xander's hard drooling cock.

Leaning down, he possessively kissed Xander. Almost devouring the passion swollen lips with his intense hunger, his hand shifting Xander's leaking cock behind him as he continued his mind drugging kiss on his wanton lover. Rocking, writhing on Xander's pliant body, he moaned softly into the ravenous mouth of his mate. Longing, needing to be a part of the sultry body beneath him, he lifted his mouth and gazed down into Xander's smoldering eyes.

Xander abruptly froze, his eyes darting up to Angel's fierce golden eyes as he felt his cock slowly being encased in a cool velvety sheath. Whining slightly as Angel slid agonzingly, slowly down his shaft, muscles squeezing tightly around his cock as his lover seated himself firmly on his lap.

"Oh my God, Angel," he whispered, arching hungrily into Angel's tight ass, feeling cool flutters caressing his dick.

"You like that, baby?" Angel whispered, deliberately clenching around the solid length rammed into him. "You like having your big cock in my ass, baby?" He moaned ecstastically, his head dropping back at the incredible sensation of fullness as he slid up and down the thick pole.

Squeeze, release. Slow glide up, slow glide down, then repeat again and again.

Squeeze, release and he chuckled hoarsely at the look of blind pleasure that suffused Xander's face...moaning at a particularly hard flex of his mate's thick shaft possessing him. Carefully, he flipped them over and spreading his legs, he hooked them securely over Xander's shoulders and gave the other a burning look. Silencommcommanding Xander to move.

Xander caught his breath at the incredible sensation of being so tightly within Angel's tight, devouring ass and a weird thought popped into his mind: 'from beneath you it devours you', who knew the First was so prophetic, he thought wildly as he began gliding into the cool interior.

God! Being inside Angel was just about as mind blowing as being in Willow's wet heat.

And slowly he began to plunge deeper into the clenching muscle, feeling the intense grip surrounding his cock...squeezing him...caressing him. Moaning softly as he slid into Angel, trying to remember to go slow but the greedy, lusty cries he was pulling from his lover each time he rammed into Angel's hungry ass was causing a predictable reaction, making him want to just go faster...harder...deeper tha that spasming sheath.

He really wanted to make Angel beg, but it just felt too damn good to be inside that cool velvety channel.ckincking him...making love to his beautiful Angel. Bracing his hands on the bed and digging in with his toes, he rolled Angel further back on his shoulders and began fucking the teasing flesh with hard, frantic jabs.

"YES! Oh God, Xander...oh God, oh God, oh God...harder...there!...right there...yes...
uhmf...faster Xander...yes, oh God YES!" Angel chanted mindlessly, as his body rocked under the long thick pole that filled him...that completed him.

Xander leaned further into Angel's body, angling his head in for a long languid kiss. Keeping up his almost brutal pace deep within his husband's horny ass. Pulling back with a loud moan as Angel began fondling, pinching his nipples. In reaction, he b to to pound and slam his cock harder into Angel's ravenous sheath, grinding his way into the cool bottomcs wis with every lunge of his body. Whimpering as Angel did something with his ass muscles that yanked a loud scream of pure pleasure from him, and he stiffen even further, and, with a shout he slammed even deeper into Angel's bucking, caressing ass.

Feeling the pressure building, rushing through his body as the tingling started in his dick, becoming stronger...fie. .

He pulled back and rammed into Angel again.

Angel shuddered under the furious thrusts of his mate, "Yes, again Xander!" he yelled, his body shaking as he felt himself losing control.

Xander drove harder into Angel, feeling the convulsive shudders overtaking them both. He thrust again...body working within the supple channel gripping him so tightly...so sweetly. In and out...again and again, it was too good....he couldn't get enough of being inside Angel...loving him, being loved by him, by Willow...it would never be enough....

....of Angel's passionate moans...

...of the spasming cool heat around his deeply embedded cock...

His mind blanked out under the hot insistent pleasure, breaking his soul apart and he screamed as he flooded Angel's ass with his hot cum.

"XANDER!" Angel's head was arched back as he bellowed his pleasure. Cool, white cum shooting between their heaving bodies, shuddering under the force of his orgasm. His ass tightened repeatedly around the thick cock still buried in his ass. Milking Xander of every precious drop of cum.

Xander collapsed on Angel's chest and felt the long legs slide from his shoulders, their bodies becoming limp in the aftermath of their orgasms.

...it would never be enough, not for any of them.

And Angel moaned softly as the thick flesh slid gently from within him.

Trying desperately to remember how to breath, Xander drew huge gulps of air into his oxygen starved lungs.

"Okay," he finally managed to gasp out, "Okay, that was good! That was really, really good. I could go as far as saying that was fuckin' fantastic but I don't want to give you a swelled head."

Angel chuckled hoarsely and slapped Xander on the butt, "Wiseass." His hand came back and gently began caressing the smooth, flexing flesh tenderly before pulling his mate up for a long torrid kiss.

"Love you," he murmured rolling them over on their sides and caressing Xander's face with gentle fingers.

Xander smiled and kissed the fingertips tenderly, "I love you too....I don't ever want to lose you or Willow over my stupidity," he said, dropping his eyes then raising them slowly, "If I...when I do something stupid and dumb, just smack me a time or two...I'll get the message."

Angel looked at him, "Is it because of the Bond that you don't want to lose us or what?" he asked, gazing steadily into Xander's eyes, his body tensing slightly.

"Fuck the Bond," Xander said forcefully, "I don't want to lose either you or Willow. To think that I spent all this time not liking you when we could have been doing this," he grinned wickedly, arching upwards into Angel's mouth for a long, simmering kiss---full of promise, spiced with lustful desire.

Angel pulled the lithe body tighter into hisracerace. Eagerly, hungrily he searched the hot interior of Xander's mouth as his hands touched, caressed his lover everywhere in reach...and there were a lot of places in reach, he thought in lascivious delight.

Finally pulling apart as exhaustion tugged at them, Xander sat up. Grabbing his ripped shirt, he cleaned them of the sticky fluid between them before wearily pulling the sheet at the foot of the bed over them and laid his head on Angel's chest.

And they settled down for some much needed rest.


Slowly Angel came awake, blinking in the late afternoon sun that flooded the bedroom, thanks to the Bond with Xander he was relishing the renewed ability to feel the warmth of the sun on his flesh. Shifting slightly, aware of the heavy weight of a tousled head resting on his chest he peered at the clock: 2:30 pm.

They had plenty of time before Buffy and the rest got here.

Turning his attention to the sleeping figure wrapped around him, he smiled asshooshook Xander awake, easily ignoring shrushrugs to dislodge his hand.

"Xander, wake up," he said quietly, groaning softly at a resurgence of his desire as his mate slowly stretched against him, coming awake in more ways than one.

"Mmm," Xander sighed, absently caressing Angel's broad chest. "What time is it?" He blinked sleepily as he peered up at Angel.

"Two thirty," Angel murmured, easing Xander up for a long, gut clenching kiss. Rolling them over, hek a k a deeper possession of the luscious mouth, he moaned his approval as the long legs parted and he settled easily between them.

"Ummm, so why did you wake me up so early," Xander sighed, arching his neck into Angel's hungry mouth, squirming slowly under the arousing caress, his legs gliding up and down Angel's flanks.

"Bath, shower, take your pick," Angel muttered into the fragrant neck he was sucking on, feeling the shudders of arousal rippling through his mate.

"Too tired," Xander whined, not wanting to leave the bed and Angel's arms.

Angel smiled and rolled out of the bed. His smile growing wicked, he grabbed Xander and threw him over his shoulder, smacking the wiggling ass with a hard hand and stilling the struggle.

"Ow!" Xander yelled, trying to twist around to whack Angel back and a shuddering moan escaped him as he felt nimble fingers part his slightly loosen bottomhole and thrust home. His breath caught at the incredible sensation, his cock stig hug hungrily.

"Thought that would shut you up," Angel smirked, his fingers busy in Xander's loosening sheath and his breath catching as desire slammed heavily into his gut. Hurriedly he made for the bathroom, never stopping the movement of his fingers within the greedy hot channel, his cock already drooling at the thought that soon he would inside that sweet honeyed flesh.

Opening the door, too aware of the gasping cries from Xander, he looked around frantically and his eyes lit at the wide countertop just begging to be christened with a long hard fuck.

He had Xander propped up and was deep inside the scorching sheath with one long agonizing thrust that had both of them crying out in sheer pleasure. He knew that he wouldn't last for too long, he was far too hungry for his horny lover. And grasping Xander by the ankles, he spread the long legs wide and started ramming his aching cock home.

Deep and fast...just the way they liked it.

Xander just closed his eyes, harsh screams of pleasure, of rapture coming from him as he writhed on the countertop. He could just imagine just how lewd and wanton he must look with his legs spread and his asslips stretched wide around the thick, hard shaft plunging into him.

"Sorry baby, I just...I gotta...Oh God, that's so fuckin' good," Angel moaned. jamming himself to the hilt deep into his mate's grasping hole. Looking down, he began thrusting harder as he watched his cock appear and disappear within Xander's tight, scorching body.

Grunting savagely, he bore down...Xander's screams of delight only spurring him on, his hips jerking, rooting deeper in his lover's hungry ass.

Roaring, he came deep inside Xander's tight, milking channel. Moaning softly, he released Xander's ankles before he half collapsed atop him and then sank to his knees.

Xander jerked his head back, barely noticing the pain as he slammed it into the wall when he cried out. Cool wetness enclose his aching cock, a tongue lashing delicately around the head. Whimpering he knew, like Angel, he wasn't going to last long under the wet intoxicating caress of Angel's mouth.

With a low cry he came, deep inside Angel's cool mouth. Slumping almost exhaustedly against Angel who had risen to his feet, a wicked smile on hice. ce.

"C'mon, we need to get cleaned up before everyone arrives," he said gently, guiding Xander to the shower.

"Okay, but next time, we get Willow up here and screw her brains out, she's got plenty to spare," Xander smirked wearily. Reviving under the hot water, he could feel his energy being restore. He quickly slapped Angel's hands away from fondling and probing in his ass.

"Stop that," he laughed as Angel backed him up against the shower wall, "You're the one that said that we gotta get downstairs," he giggled as he turned his head determinedly away from Angel's kisses, trying to push the other away.

"Keep it up and I'm gonna scream," he was laughing almost helplessly as he twisted away, then lost his balance and fell to his knees in the slippery tub.

"Oooh, that's not a very good position to be in," Angel smirked before dropping to his knees behind his laughing mate, easily slipping a hand around and stroking the hardening cock. "My mistake, it's a very good position to be in," he murmured into Xander's ear, trying to nudge his cock into Xander flexing ass.

"I warned you," Xander was still giggling, trying to squirm away, "WILLOW!"

He laughed openly as Angel tried to scramble away. Seizing this opportunity to escape, Xander darted out of the tub and snatching a towel, he ran laughing into the bedroom.

"You cheated," Angel accused coming out of the bathroom dripping wet.

"You see what time it is," Xander snickered, pointing at the clock that read 4:05 pm. "They're gonna be here very soon if I know Buffy." He turned away and continued drying off as he looked in the closet for clothes to wear. He tilted his head to the side as Angel came up behind him and nibbled on his ear.

"Mmmm," he murmured, sighing as desire surged through him. He rocked slowly from the lazy thrusting Angel was doing against his ass. "We don't have time for this," he whimpered as a cool hand began fondling his cock and balls.

"I know," Angel muttered, continuing his nibbling caress, swirling his tongue in Xander's ear, feeling the shivering response before he backed off with a sigh of his own but not before giving a possessive caress to the thick rising cock.

"But after they get settled for the night, you and Willow are all mine," he said, giving Xander a hot smoldering look.

"Can't wai Xan Xander breathed huskily and tingled under that intense burning look. His eyes glittering with lust.

"Hey love, is it my imagination," Angel cocked his head to the side, regarding Xander, "Or have you shrunk?" His hands gestured to Xander's body and height uncertainly.

Xander smiled, "Wings make up a lot of me, gotta started 'em from somewhere. So, I lose a couple of inches and some weight, no biggie," he shrugged.

"Well, from what I can tell," Angel breathed huskily, pulling Xander to him, "The best part is still here."

Opening their minds to Willow, both instinctively smiled at the joy that radiated from their lady . N. No more hesitation was going to destroy their union, not now, not today...not ever!


Caleb watched with puzzled eyes as the First paced back and forth. He wasn't used to seeing it so...uneasy. If it was human he would think that it was as nervous as a cat in a room full of starving dogs.

"Well, somethin' must a happen that got you pretty unsettled," he finally drawled out.

The First gave him a sharp look, "Apparently, it seems that the big guns have been called into play," it said dryly. "The last Warrior has been awoken and Bonded, as well as the Ancient One."

"Well now, that don't seem like a problem t'me," he drawled out, pushing away from the wall to sit on an overturn crate. "Alls ya gotta d jus just call up some of them vamps of yours and there you have it," he said, a smug fat smile on his face at this most obvious solution.

The First stopped and gave him a cold, flat look wondering why in the name of evil had it took this idiot creature as a servant.

"Allow me to explain the situation to you," it said slowly. "The last Warrior was born... created, call it what you will, vow the sole purpose of stopping my kind. With him now in the game the stakes are far higher than you can possibly imagine. If I slip up, if we make one little mistake...," it shook it head. "To put it in a language you understand, 'we are going to be in a shitload of trouble'."

"Why do you say that," Caleb looked puzzled at the continuing anger coming from the First.

"Because I already screw up once," the First shouted, turning red in rage. "I thought that I had gotten rid of the last Warrior seven years ago. There was some other stupid kid that I thought was the Warrior and I had that idiot, blonde vampiress, Darla, Turn him. And then that goofy kid with the Slayer staked him."

Storming around the deserted room, it's true form flickering in existence in its rage.

"Grrrrrr," it finally growled, resettling into its Buffy facade.

"I take it that wasn't the right one," Caleb raised a brow, smirking at the First's futile rage.

"No, 'it wasn't the right one'," it mocked him nastily. "I mean, who would have thought that a Warrior would have grown up in that type of household. Getting beaten almost daily, half starved...," it stopped and snorted, "Well, apparently not me."

"So you know who t'last Warrior is then," Caleb drawled getting to his feet, ready for the First to send him to kill the Warrior.

The First waved him to sit down dismissively, "Yeah I know, it's that goofy kid that staked the other boy, you know, that boy that hangs around the Slayer. His brother managed to get a message to me before he died. Apparently the boy's Bonded with a male vampire."

"Great Sodom 'n Gomorrah," he gasped out, "'Men lying with men, that just ain't part of God's will."

The First gave him a disbelieving look, before looking away, a sneer on it's lips...like these idiots humans could truly know of God's Will.

"So why don't we just get on up there 'n kill 'em," Caleb looked at the First still puzzled by its strange reluctance to go after the kid. It didn't seem so hard to him: Find the kid...kill the kid.

Recalling the boy's wide, dark eyes that seemed to see everything at once, a cruel smile twisted his face, he would just love to stick his thumbs right through those dark eyes, just to see how well the kid saw after that.

The First growled softly, "You don't get it...if we don't play by the rules that are set up, we are toast. There will be no reprieve or 'Get out of jail free' card to play. And if we fail," it shuddered, "There are worst things than me waiting for us."

Caleb looked indignant, "So we gotta play by their rules?"

The First smiled evilly, "There are rules and there are 'rules'," it said slyly and began chuckling. "All I have to do it figure out a way to take him out of the equation, him and his husband, and it will be game, set and match."

"So how you gonna do that," he asked raising a brow but pleased to see the First in much better humor.

"Why challenge him, of course," the First looked virtuously at Caleb. "There's nothing in the rules that say I can't challenge him. I challenge him and get him to agree to stay out of the fight should he lose. When he accepts, I step back and call on my Champion, namely you. His problem is now that he's Bonded, he can't fight you and neither can his vampire. Technically neither is human and the species in a a challenge must be near or equal to each other. Only another human can accept the challenge. And he won't dare allow any of his little playmates to fight you either."

Caleb chuckled, "So we win by default."

"Yep," the First said in fiendish satisfaction, "It's a rough plan, but it'll have to work. Then all we have to do is worry about that incompetent Slayer and those Potentials little girls with very little potential futures."

Both it and Caleb began laughing evilly.